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Internet Offers Small Investors
Vital Information About IPOs

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Deborah LohseStaff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Oct. 21, 1996 12:04 a.m. ET

Small investors might not have much chance of getting in on the hottest initial public stock offerings, but they have more and more IPO information at their fingertips these days, courtesy of the Internet.

Of course, investors can always phone underwriters for prospectuses on offerings they care about, provided they know what deals are happening and the underwriters have prospectuses on hand. But an informed on-line IPO sleuth can use the Internet to learn which companies are slated to go public, who's taking them public, and...